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The
UCLA
Festival of Preservation is a biannual tour of moving-image works
uncovered, restored and preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. The
diversity of the lineup—spanning forgotten Hollywood classics, little-known...
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In
celebration of the re-release of experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage’s seminal
text Metaphors on Vision, co-editor
Thomas Beard will appear at Lightbox Film Center on Thursday, January 25th.
The program will include a...
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Freezeframe:
Q&A with Herb Shellenberger, curator of Independent Frames:
1.
What was the inspiration for this series?
I've
been fascinated by this work for a number of years. I first came across the
films of Suzan...
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International House Philadelphia (IHP) and Da Vinci Art Alliance (DVAA) present Intersection, an exhibition of 35 wall works in various
mediums, all illustrating abstractly or literally the point at which two
things meet. The...
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In March I visited the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive to see Hippie Modernism, a recently closed large-scale exhibition devoted to late ’60s-early ’70s counterculture movements that merged utopian aspirations with...
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The film program now known as Lightbox Film Center
has a rich history. As we transition to a new era with our new name, we also
felt it was a fitting moment to look back. A new exhibition on view in the
gallery, curated by...
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It’s a big deal to suddenly rename a nearly 40-year-old film program. But we realized that even as our hidden gem of a cinema was steadily growing with new funding, more ambitious projects, and partnerships with many of the...
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Patricia White is the Eugene
Lang Research Professor of Film and Media Studies and the coordinator of Gender
and Sexuality Studies at Swarthmore College. White partnered with Lightbox Film
Center to present 45 Years of Women Make...
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International House and Lightbox Film Center
were recently featured on WHYY's Newsworks in a piece that covered our film program's name
change. Read it here
The Daily Pennsylvanian talks to Chief Curator
Jesse Pires and Director...
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International
House Philadelphia proudly announces its newly renamed film program, Lightbox Film Center, with a
Lightbox Launch Party (ihousephilly.org/calendar/lightbox-launch-party) on Thursday, May 18. The evening will
include...
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